Boston illustrated; . ofthings will continue. Boston business is rapidly expanding, and the room to doit in must expand likewise. The current is setting decidedly to the south, andyear by year new advances are made in that direction, by both wholesale andretail trade. But we must speak of the existing Hues of division ; and for our purposes we re-gard at the pres-ent time as theSouth End, all theterritory boundedon the north andwest by Essex?Boylston, andTremont streets,and the Bostonand Albany Rail-road, and south bythe old RoxburyIhie. The face of thecountry in this partof the city is forthe
Boston illustrated; . ofthings will continue. Boston business is rapidly expanding, and the room to doit in must expand likewise. The current is setting decidedly to the south, andyear by year new advances are made in that direction, by both wholesale andretail trade. But we must speak of the existing Hues of division ; and for our purposes we re-gard at the pres-ent time as theSouth End, all theterritory boundedon the north andwest by Essex?Boylston, andTremont streets,and the Bostonand Albany Rail-road, and south bythe old RoxburyIhie. The face of thecountry in this partof the city is forthe most part level;and a very largepart of the terri-tory was reclaimedfrom the sea. View in Chester Squaie. Many of the llorSC- cars continue to run to the Neck, but the South End is no longer a neck ofland. There are many Bostonians yet living who remember when TremontStreet was but a shell road across flats. Now it is a broad avenue, and linedwith modern buildings. Only a few public spaces were reserved in this part. BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 109 of the city. Franklin and Blackstone Squares are merely open spaces, — ofgreat value, to be sure, for breathing purposes, but incapable, both from theirsmall size and from their flatness, of being made very beautiful. Union Park,Worcester Square, and Chester Square have been made desirable for residenceand for public resort by simple and inexpensive means. The last-named haslong been a favorite street for dwelling-houses. Through the avenue runs apark, narrow at the ends, but swelling out in the centre, in which are trees andflowers, with a fountain and a fish-pond, making the place a deliciously cool andpleasant spot in midsummer. Most of the streets other than those we havenamed, though generally pleasant, are somewhat monotonous in their appear-ance. Their width and cleanness, however, and their air of quiet and repose,give a pleasing appearance to this large residence-quarter. The domestic archi-tectiue exemplifies that pecviliarity o
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